Young scholars
The Climate Centre is scaling up its support to the Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement through advanced students who link their academic requirements with humanitarian needs.
Interested in the Young Scholars for Humanitarian Work Programme?
We have ongoing arrangements for internships and temporary consultancy contracts with a few international institutions, leading to a more sustainable and well-supported system to accommodate interns and consultants. If you are affiliated with one of the below mentioned universities, we would be keen to explore a collaboration with your academic institution if a faculty member is willing and able to supervise you, and contacts us with preliminary ideas on how to link your academic requirements with our humanitarian needs. In that case you can apply for a password to participate in the survey. Universities the Climate Centre has arrangements with are Boston University, Brandeis University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Institute of Development Studies (Sussex) King's College London, University of Manchester, MIT, Parsons School of Design, University College London, Oxford and Cambridge, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Maryland, New York University, University of Miami, University of Cape Town, University of Iceland, Wageningen University, and Yale.
Please request a password at climatecentre@climatecentre.org to fill in a survey
so we can find out more about you, your interests and skills, and why you would like to work with the RC.
Listed below are the young researchers who are currently doing their climate work for us:
Lauren GRAHAM
Ben NORSKOV
Parsons MFA Design and Technology
Designed games for outreach and education about climate change with other team members from Parsons and Yale.
Supervisor: Pablo Suarez, Content Advisor
Eulani LABAY
Parsons The New School for Design; MFA Transdisciplinary Design, 2012 ![]()
Designed games for outreach and education about climate change with other team members from Parsons and Yale.
Supervisor: Pablo Suarez, Content Advisor
Kanchan SHRESTHA
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Environmental Science ![]()
Analyzes and reports on integration of climate change by National Societies for the UNFCCC COP-17, Durban.
Supervisors: Pablo Suarez and Patricia Fay
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies - Environmental Management ![]()
Analyzing patterns of integration of climate change adaptation strategies and policy into the RC national societies humanitarian work, evaluating the correlation between capacity building efforts and more effective climate change integration
Supervisors: Pablo Suarez and Patricia Fay
Lien TRAN
Parsons The New School for Design; MFA Transdisciplinary Design, 2012 ![]()
Designed games for humanitarian outreach and education about climate change and public health.
Team Faculty Collaborator: Clay Ewing
Mohini DUTTA
Parsons The New School for Design; MFA Transdisciplinary Design, 2012 ![]()
Designed games for outreach and education about climate change with other team members from Parsons and Yale.
Pablo Suarez, Content Advisor
Sophia COLANTONIO
Yale University, School of Public Health - Public Health
and Medicine
at the University of Ottawa, Canada
Helping address the humanitarian consequences of climate change and extreme events within the Partners for Resilience programme.
Supervisor: Pablo Suarez
Vanessa LAMERS
Yale University, School of Public Health, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies - Public Health
, Environmental Management ![]()
Evaluating direct, measurable links between the environment and international disasters to utilize for the upcoming COP in Durban, South Africa
Supervisor: Pablo Suarez
Listed below are the young researchers who completed their climate work for us in 2011:
Erin COUGHLAN Jorge SANZ FUERTES Megan FLEMING Mystral ECHEVARRIA Nina QAIEM MAQAMI Pamela BRAFF
Chetan DEVA
University of Manchester - Economics ![]()
Developed a framework for impact assessment of forecast based decisions
Supervisor: Pablo Suarez
Columbia University - Climate and Society ![]()
Assisted in Partners for Resilience Programme (since december 2011 part of our Climate Centre's Consultants team)
Supervisors: Pablo Suarez, Lisette Braman
Grady WALKER
New York University - Environmental Conservation Education ![]()
Assisted in creating a film for the Uganda Red Cross Society and the Climate Centre on climate risks in Uganda.
Supervisor: Pablo Suarez, Julie Arrighi
Jaime FRUNGILLO
Boston University - Marine Programme
Georeferencing of Red Cross data to analyze links between forecasts and disasters
Supervisors: Jordan Winkler and Pablo Suarez
Jessica THORN
University of Oxford - School of Geography and the Environment
Masters research addressing "Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction to urban flood risk in informal settlements: A case study of Mathare slum, Nairobi Kenya."
Supervisors: Pablo Suarez, Youcef Ait-Chellouche,Thomas Thornton
King's College London ![]()
Assisted in Partners for Resilience Programme
Supervisor: Knud Falk
Kat JENSEN
Columbia University - Climate and Society
Assisted in Partners for Resilience Programme
Supervisors: Pablo Suarez, Lisette Braman
Lionel BADAL
King's College London
Assisted in Partners for Resilience Programme
Supervisors: Pablo Suarez, Madeleen Helmer
Louisa WHITLOCK
King's College London
Assisted in Partners for Resilience Programme
Supervisor: Fleur Monasso
Luis Miguel CASTRO URIBE
University of Cape Town - Environmental Management
Evaluated the effectiveness of participatory video in community-based adaptation to climate change. A case study in Wage Worgaja, Ethiopia.
Supervisors: Pablo Suarez, Gina Ziervogel, Azemeraw Bekele (ERCS contact)
Columbia University - Climate and Society
Contributed knowledge of climate change and variability in community-based disaster management for the Caribbean region
Supervisors: Reynette Royer-Thomas (RC Caribbean DRMRC), Lisette Braman, Pablo Suarez, Walter Baethgen (IRI)
External Partners: Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), International Centre on Environmental Monitoring (CIMA Foundation), Columbia IRI
Meghan BAILEY
University of Oxford, Environmental Change and Management
Assessed the potential of climate forecasting and disaster risk reduction interventions to improve household level food security in the drought-prone region of Karamoja, Uganda
Supervisors: Aine Reuben, Pablo Suarez, Ariella Helfgott
Boston University - Marine Programme
Georeferencing of Red Cross data to analyze links between forecasts and disasters
Supervisors: Jordan Winkler and Pablo Suarez
Neal GRAVES
Hampshire college - Literature and Classical Studies
Searched through DREFs for key terms related to weather predictions and organizing my findings in a database.
Supervisor: Pablo Suarez
King's College London
Assisted in Partners for Resilience Programme
Supervisor: Knud Falk
Boston University - Marine Programme
Georeferencing of Red Cross data to analyze links between forecasts and disasters
Supervisors: Jordan Winkler and Pablo Suarez
Rhiannon FOX
Parsons the New School for Design - Communication Design
Provided Innovative visualizations for global disaster data in order to see visual patterns and revealing the countries most in need of disaster recovery resources
Supervisors: ISDR, Mathan Ratinam, Pablo Suarez
Soyee CHIU
Columbia University - Climate and Society
Assisted in Partners for Resilience Programme
Supervisors: Pablo Suarez, Lisette Braman
Trevor GREEN
Boston University - International Relations and Environmental Policy
Georeferencing of Red Cross data to analyze links between forecasts and disasters
Supervisors: Jordan Winkler and Pablo Suarez
Yufang ZHOU
Columbia University - Climate and Society
1. Assisted with ongoing DRR projects at the provincial level
2. Assisted branches to identify opportunities to help communities to access, understand, and act upon climate and weather information in a practical and appropriate way
Supervisors: Lisette Braman, Qinghui Gu, Rebecca McNaught and Liqiang Sun
Zoe ROBERT
University of Iceland - Environment and Natural Resources ![]()
Developed a framework for monitoring and evaluation of project to build capacity to cope with climate risks, researching climate risk management work of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society, as well as coordination of organisations across geographical scales.
Supervisors: Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir, Pablo Suarez & Patty Fay
Go here to see where young researchers did their climate related work for the Red Cross and Red Crescent in 2009 and 2010.
Main topics:
- Disaster Management
- Health and Care
- Early warning early action
- Advocacy
- Communications
- Community risk reduction
- Youth
- Getting started
Disaster Management
Climate change can act as a catalyst for enhanced disaster management.
Health and Care
Many national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies will be touched by the health implications of climate change.
Early warning early action
Routinely taking humanitarian action before a disaster or health emergency happens, making full use of scientific information on all timescales.
Advocacy
The Red Cross and Red Crescent never works in isolation. Partnerships are more important than ever in the context of global warming.
Communications
The global climate is changing and the past no longer explains the present.
Community risk reduction
The Red Cross and Red Crescent has traditionally focused on response. But now other aspects, including risk reduction, are also given priority.
Youth
Red Cross Red Crescent youth take action to reduce the impacts of climate change.
Getting started
The Red Cross Red Crescent has a growing body of experience working on addressing climate change. Here’s how to use it to get started.
Take a look at Red Cross Red Crescent climate change activities on the worldmap
